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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:12:18 +0000
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] module, kbuild: Faster boot with custom kernel.
From: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andreas Robinson <andr345@gmail.com>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, sam@ravnborg.org,
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On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

>> * Don't unpack initramfs twice. If CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is
>> ? set, the kernel decompresses the ramdisk just to see if
>> ? it's a cpio archive or not, and then throws away the result.
>
> I actually have a patch for it stuck away somewhere; I thought it was
> sent upstream but apparently it was not. I'll dig it out and dust it
> off.

Please do. It's a big win in relative terms compared to the rest of
the boot for small systems.
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